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From: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT compiler
Message-ID: <5224@brahma.cs.hw.ac.uk>
Date: 21 Dec 90 09:38:04 GMT
References: <1990Dec17.195808.21818@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <2786@atari.UUCP>
Reply-To: neil@cs.hw.ac.uk (Neil Forsyth)
Organization: Computer Science, Heriot-Watt U., Scotland
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In article <2786@atari.UUCP> apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:
>ens@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes:
##    I just got a TT030 last Friday (ordered Monday) from Atari Canada.
#
#Thanks and Congratulations.
#
##the desktop is disappointingly similar to TOS 1.4;
#
#I believe you're wrong there.  Please read your manual.  Or just look
#at the menus; they should tell you how different it is. In the default
#configuration, it does look like the ST Desktop, so as not to be
#confusing to ST users, but it's really very different.  Anecdotal
#evidence of how different it is: the Neodesk guys are mad at us for
#copying their ideas (we didn't).

Is that still any reason not to release it for the ST? ST users, Codehead
and Double Click all want it released.

This issue won't die. If you sell your ST and buy a TT then the guy who's now
got your old ST will want the new desktop.

#============================================
#Opinions expressed above do not necessarily	-- Allan Pratt, Atari Corp.
#reflect those of Atari Corp. or anyone else.	  ...ames!atari!apratt

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